Cat Quotes - Page 10

The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.

The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

If I can listen to what he can tell me, if I can understand how it seems to him; if I can see its personal meaning for him, if I can sense the emotional flavor which it has for him, then I will be releasing potent forces of change in him.

Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another, intertwining of external and internal factors, and adaptive processes which overcome impediments that the child encounters.

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.

We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

The best way to learn is through the powerful force of rhythm.

Observe your cat. It is difficult to surprise him. Why? Naturally his superior hearing is part of the answer, but not all of it. He moves well, using his senses fully. He is not preoccupied with irrelevancies. He's not thinking about his job or his image or his income tax. He is putting first things first, principally his physical security. Do likewise.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

O Lord, if I could fly to my people and tell them of your goodness at the top of my voice, oh how many souls would be won!

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the right response than to send the right message.

Between what I think, what I want to say, what I believe I say, what I say, what you want to hear, what you believe to hear, what you hear, what you want to understand, what you think you understand, what you understand...They are ten possibilities that we might have some problem communicating. But let's try anyway...

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

My husband said it was him or the cat. I miss him sometimes.

The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.

A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.